Downloads

Surfing the Web for new music, video and MP3 downloads can be a serious time investment. Tips from Times staff and contributors will help take the drag out of click-and-drag music choices. Some downloads may contain explicit lyrics. All are free, except as noted.

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-- CASEY DOLAN

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“You Don’t Know”

Eminem

music.aol.com/artist/eminem/347307/album/eminem-presents-the-re-up /867997

Slim is back with 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Cashis among others in the posse on this first single from his upcoming mix album. Indeed, the song comes under Eminem’s name, but the spotlight is shared by all three, each of whom equal Eminem in the rhythmic dexterity of their rhymes. “Who run it? You know but ya acting like ya don’t know” is the percolating refrain. Eminem’s impersonation of Hannibal Lecter serves as a preamble to the proceedings, but stands out as the single most arresting image and scene.

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“Wait a Minute”

The Pussycat Dolls

mp.aol.com/video.index.adppmmsid1752364The playful give and take between the Pussycat Dolls and Timbaland offers an exuberantly fun and comical take on relations between the sexes. Making good use of locations in a subway car and on city streets, the choreography works like clockwork. Timbaland, impeccably dressed as usual,

is a hapless fool in his fruitless appeals to Nicole. The vocal harmonies, close-clustered and tightly executed, are the outstanding feature of the track.

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“Alife Sessions [Part 1]”

John Mayer and Just Blaze

www.youtube.com/watchvg0md_BA8Ieweurl A 10-minute-plus jam with both Mayer and Blaze bringing what they do best to the mix: Mayer skronking and bending the strings of his Strat and Novax 8-string like the Hendrix he wants to be and Blaze providing great turntable work and beats. It’s not exactly genre-busting as they claim in an interview section, but the interplay and musical dialogue is palpable.

casey.dolan@latimes.com